India continues buying discounted Russian oil despite Western sanctions, then exports refined petroleum products to Europe, undermining restrictions.

Moscow's top priority during the summit is clear: protect Russian oil's dominant position in India, which has become Russia's largest market for seaborne crude since 2022.

Russia is working to co-opt part of India’s booming tech sector to forge a technological alliance to counter the West and boost its standing with China, in a campaign led by a former U.S.-based deep-cover spy, documents show.

The United States itself still buys nuclear fuel from us for its own nuclear power plants. That is also fuel,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his first visit to India in four years.

WASHINGTON, DC -US media outlets cast Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi as a pivotal moment in India’s foreign policy calculus, with coverage centering on the Modi government’s attempt to preserve its deep strategic partnership with Moscow while navigating acute pressure from Washington.

India gave Russia's leader a warm welcome in his first visit since his country invaded Ukraine. The visit in part signaled India's defiance of the U.S., which has punished New Delhi for buying Russian oil.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday at an annual summit and agreed to diversify mutual economic ties, as the United States presses India to revise its decades-old partnership with Russia.

Putin is visiting India on Thursday and Friday to attend the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit. Modi, who visited Moscow last year and met Putin briefly at a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in September, has refrained from condemning Russia over Ukraine, emphasizing a peaceful resolution, according to The Associated Press.

When Vladimir Putin’s plane touches down in New Delhi this week, he will be met with the pomp and ceremony reserved for one of India’s most steadfast partners. Yet his host, Prime Narendra Modi, is simultaneously forging a deep strategic relationship with a key global rival: the United States.

Russian officials have offered India an extensive proposal for cooperation in the development of both sixth-generation fighter jets and future strategic bombers.